Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis complicated by myocardial infarction in two patients with normal coronary arteries

Ehrbar, H. U.; Gubler, J.; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen; Hirschel, Bernard

doi:10.1093/clinids/23.2.335

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Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis complicated by myocardial infarction in two patients with normal coronary arteries

Contributors

Ehrbar, H. U.; Gubler, J.; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen

; Hirschel, Bernard

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Clinical infectious diseases, vol. 23, no. 2, p. 335-336

Publication date

1996

Abstract

We describe two patients who had acute myocardial infarctions during episodes of Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis. C. canimorsus is associated with severe infection in patients who are immunocompromised; one of these patients had undergone splenectomy for Hodgkin's disease 11 years earlier, and the other consumed significant amounts of alcohol regularly. Both patients owned dogs that had licked them or produced minor skin wounds shortly before they became ill. Coronary angiographic findings were normal for both patients. The association of acute myocardial infarction and sepsis with a specific pathogen is unique. This finding suggests that endothelial damage and coronary thrombosis due to C. canimorsus sepsis is a possible mechanism of acute myocardial necrosis.

Keywords

Animals
Arteries
Capnocytophaga/ isolation & purification
Coronary Vessels/ physiology
Dogs
Gram-Negative Bacterial
Infections/complications/ microbiology/physiopathology/therapy
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction/complications/ microbiology
Sepsis/complications/ microbiology/physiopathology/therapy

UNIGE affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

UNIGE research groups

Epidémiologie et contrôle de la résistance aux antibiotiques (866)

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EHRBAR, H. U. et al. Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis complicated by myocardial infarction in two patients with normal coronary arteries. In: Clinical infectious diseases, 1996, vol. 23, n° 2, p. 335–336. doi: 10.1093/clinids/23.2.335

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PID : unige:7189
DOI : 10.1093/clinids/23.2.335
PMID : 8842273

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1058-4838

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Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis complicated by myocardial infarction in two patients with normal coronary arteries

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